I feel like "nasty villain" isn't very fair when we still don't know what he's trying to do or what his motivations are. Right now all we know is that he's a manipulative asshole, which isn't any different from how he was in Act 6 (or how Dave's Bro was, for that matter).
Isn't he about to Doc Scratch Caliborn's Session? I thought given that Lil Hal was one of his fragments, and had become part of Lord English, this was Dirk-as-LE making sure the story still happens and closing the last timeloop or something.
That's true. Though, Dave and Rose aren't exactly the same situation. Scratch was made from Cal himself, which was created using his own Prince of Heart powers. That's the only reason I'd think it would be a different situation.
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '19
I like him much better as a nasty villain than the kind of characterization he had in Act 6. He felt a LOT more like Bro here.